NUCLEAR POWER IN BELARUS AND WORLDWIDE
GRODNO, 24 August (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko attended a rally of his supporters in the center of Grodno after he met with members of the Grodno Oblast Council of Deputies on 22 August, BelTA has learned.
The rally took place in Lenin Square under the motto “We will not let our country be destroyed!” The participants of the rally supported the current authorities, peace and creation, saying that they would not allow anyone take their country away. A lot of people turned up at the event. More than 20,000 people gathered in the square to listen to the president.
The head of state came to the stage to a storm of applause. Supporters chanted “Lukashenko!” for several minutes.
“Many years ago (the elder generation remembers that) I started my first election campaign in this wonderful region, this great city. Why I came to Grodno in the first place? My main opponents were Poles and Catholics - Zenon Stanislavovich [Poznyak], Stanislav Stanislavovich [Shushkevich] and Vyacheslav Frantsevich [Kebich]. I decided then that I would go to them, to the Poles,” said Aleksandr Lukashenko.
According to the head of state, Grodno residents asked him then to solve several issues, although they did not believe that he would succeed. “I solved them within a year in gratitude for you voting for me then. Thank you very much that you have supported me all those years!” the president said.
“When I was approaching this square, I was told that the situation in Grodno was different now. I said: ‘It is not true. It is impossible that people changed so much here.' When I saw this huge crowd of thousands of people, I realized that Grodno is still our land,” Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed.
